Reversal of pathological pain through specific spinal GABAA receptor subtypes

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7176, 2008, Pages 330-334

  Knabl, Julia ^a   Witschi, Robert ^b   Hösl, Katharina ^a   Reinold, Heiko ^a   Zeilhofer, Ulrike B ^a   Ahmadi, Seifollah ^a,f   Brockhaus, Johannes ^b,g   Sergejeva, Marina ^a   Hess, Andreas ^a   Brune, Kay ^a   Fritschy, Jean Marc ^b   Rudolph, Uwe ^b,d   Möhler, Hanns ^b,c,e   Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 7 TERT BUTYL 3 (2,5 DIFLUOROPHENYL) 6 (2 METHYL 2H 1,2,4 TRIAZOL 3 YLMETHOXY) 1,2,4 TRIAZOLO[4,3 B]PYRIDAZINE; DIAZEPAM;

DISEASE; DRUG; PATHOLOGY; RODENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOUSE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 38349169245     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06493     Document Type: Article

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